Editors' Review

Photo Slideshow Maker Free Version makes it easy to create attractive photo slideshows that you can watch on your computer, burn to CD or DVD, or post online on your blog, website, or social media hangout. It takes your images and combines them with templates, transition effects, backgrounds, Flash options, and music and sound to create coherent presentations that can tell stories, celebrate people and events, display your products, or just look cool.

Pros

Welcome screen: A splash screen describes the three easy steps to creating a photo slideshow and posting it online with Photo Slideshow Maker: Add Photos, Select Theme, and Publish & Share. A checkbox turns off the feature when you no longer need it.

Music: You can add music (or any sound recording) from your library or directly from an Audio CD to your slideshow. We could set the sample rate, bit rate, and choose mono or stereo on the Background Music Options (under Preferences).

Transition effects: The Photo tab's Transition Effect Panel has a large library of easy-to-apply visual effects, including time duration sliders and a random option.

Cons

Pro only: Many of the features and options displayed in Photo Slideshow Maker Free Version are only available in the premium Professional Version, including Edit Themes, 3D, HTML5, Web Album, and Video.

Bottom Line

Photo Slideshow Maker Free Version has everything you need to make great slideshows and share them with friends and family. While we wish it didn't display unavailable features, it still outshines most other free slideshow makers.

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Publisher's Description

Photo Flash Maker free version is a light-weight and easy-to-use flash creator. With this freeware, you can create flash slide shows with photos and music, in only a few steps. Photo Flash Maker (free version) provides user-friendly interface, ready-for-use flash templates and effects, and more features. With Photo Flash Maker free version, you can create gorgeous photo flash slide shows in SWF format for watching on computer, burn the gift CD or DVD.

EASY
Self Explanatory
Great Preset Templates but ability to build your own
No Watermarks
Truly Free

Cons

Tends to crop portrait or oddly sized images badly.
No option to save in MP4.

Summary

I really enjoyed using this software. I just had a problem with some very old pictures I was trying to include. I had some 3.5 x 3.5 old family pictures I was trying to include in among my 4x6 standard landscape snapshots. Every time the play back came to one of the 3.5 images they were missing the subjects head. I was only getting the middle of the picture. However, as long as all the images I loaded were 4x6 originals rather portrait or landscape format it handled those well.

Support importing and editing videos? NO!!! So i've found another free slideshow maker that can help me turn digital photos and video clips into flash slideshow,thumbnail gallery,flash album and flash presentation. Just let more guys know this app. CHEERS!

It's NOT Free, Has Large Water Marks & Large Logos on output advertising their company for everybody to see, and they want $49.95 to remove those, leaves behind files when uninstalled.

Summary

This program was suppose to be Free, but it is Not, very sneaky to say Free, it has Very Large Water Marks on output, and it has their companies Logos' advertising their company for everybody to see, and to Remove the Water Marks and Logos' you have to pay them $45.95, this should have been mention on their listing so you would not have downloaded the program for nothing, also it leaves behind files in the Registry, and folders, I had to do a System Restore to fully remove the program.

Easy to use. Even I do not understand anything about embedding slideshow into website, I just copy the code the program generates and paste it into my web editor, then the flash banner is added.

Cons

Only dozens of slideshow templates are provided, if you need a splendid one for a special event, you may do some more optimization on the slideshow.

Summary

Anyway I like this program, and as a freeware it already meets my needs to make some simple slideshow and flash banners for building my website. Thanks for the programmers' contribution, but if possible, I hope them can add some more fashion slideshow templates.

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